The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-18

Bishop Potter lives in a fat that is sit
uated about half way between the ground
and the lofty top of the building, but that
does not signify anything as to its price or
desirability, because the system of elevators
has been introduced there and makes stair
ways disappear as an element of comfort or
discomfort in an apartment. His windows
overlook the easternmoSt strawberries of
Central Park, and are, therefore, very near
the corner of Fifty-ninth street and Fifth
avenue. To all callers who approach the
building liveried footman opens the outer
door, one similarly CARRIED manages the
dainty elevator, but modest maid servant
takes the callers card at the massive door
of the Bishops private rooms. These flats
are arranged, to a certain extent, after the
manner of fine private houses, with a YES
tibule in which the caller sits until his card
has been referred to the resident within
The rooms of Bishop Potter's apartment are
large, light and furnished with all the luxu-
ries known to the modern world. Every
thing is arranged in the most artistic and
attractive manner. The furniture is of the
costliest and most expensive kind, and the
decorations of the room, not only those
placed there by the builders but those added
by the Bishop, are all of the highest degree
of finish and elegance. A full-sized Ra-
phael is the most prominent painting on
the walls, which are nearly obscured with
numerous pictures. 1t is the only feature
of the apartments that might mark the &C.
clesiastical character of its distinguished
occupant A comfortable odor, neither of
roast beef nor perfume, but suggestive of
both, pervades the atmosphere. One gets
the impression from this apartment that it
is the home of wealthy society man of
cultivated taste and disposition to get
every comfort out of life possible.
Next to Bishop Potter in prominence in
lT..,-, Il,
Smith, a distinguished looking man, six feet
IN height, of massive build, but not over
weighted with flesh. He has smooth round
face that does not look like that of an Amer
lean, and is set off by a business-like NOUS
tache and fine pair of dark eyes that
glance all about person and not through
and through him as the Bishops do. His
manner is dignlfied and much marked by
bonhommie, and he seems to have sensible
modern way of looking at things that is
refreshing and entertaining in one of his
calling He occupies an elegant brownstone
front on Fifth avenue, near SiXty-sixth
street. 1t overlooks d most attractive sec
ton Of Central Park and is far removed
from the turmoil and hustle of the great
city. When one enters the house the first
thing that arrests his attention is full-sized
statue of the Venus de Medici looking at one
from an alcove near the stairway Many
other classical works of art, both in statuary
and painting, are to be seen in all parts of
the house, and a distinguishing feature of
the decorations of his home is a collection
of expensive and interesting bric-a-brac. A
liveried butler bears the callers card to his
employer on a neat silver tray. If the caller
is not personally known to the Archdeacon
he is requested to write short message out
lining his business, and for this purpose the
butler presents him an oblong tab, elegantly
mounted in oxydized silver, which is carried
on the silver waiter to the inmost penetralia
of the house, where the Archdeacon con-
siders the matter and sends out his answer.
Another distinguishing feature of this estab-
lishment is the perfection of the butler, who
has been well-trained evidently and fits ex-
cellently into the semi-ecclesiastical position
which he occupies.